PUBLICUM. Audiences in transformation: New forms of the spectator experience and its interactions with museum management
January 2018-January 2020
Leisure Studies Institute, University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain)
European University of Madrid (Spain)
Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
Funded by Excellence and Challenges Programme, Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, Spanish Government
Summary: The figure of the spectator is today in the middle of a transition towards new forms of experience defined by a diversity of technological, economic and political factors that are changing the space of reception and the context of interaction with the artwork. this project approaches the transformation of museum audiences combining a variety of perspectives and tools from the following fields of study: Philosophy of art, Social psychology and Cultural management
CONNECT. Knowledge Alliance for Audience Development
September 2017-September 2019
Leisure Studies Institute, University of Deusto, Bilbao (Spain)
Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (Poland)
Goldsmiths, University of London (United Kingdom)
Various private and public organisations in the UK, Denmark, Italy, Spain, and Poland
Funded by Eramus+ Programme, European Union
Summary: The project seeks to develop an innovative multidisciplinary training module mixing informal and formal learning methodologies and digital resources to introduce audience development theory, practice and philosophy. Critical and reflective learning in the higher educational environment will be strongly linked to the real problems that cultural organisations face.
Video Games as Culture: Considering the Role and Importance of Video Games in Contemporary Society
January 2014-January 2017
Directorate of Social Sciences, University of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester (United Kingdom); Department of Sociology 2, University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Funded by Basque Government, Postdoctoral Programme
Summary: Drawing on new and original empirical data, including interviews with gamers, as well as key representatives of the video game industry, media, and the fields of education and arts, my research provides a consideration of how video games and their culture can help us understand agency, power, everyday life, identity, and the processes of subjectification in contemporary society. But it also provides an important lens for understanding, from a sociological point of view, video games as experience, culture, and sociotechnical assemblages.
World(s) of victims. Dispositifs and processes of identity construction of ‘the victim’ in contemporary Spain. Study of four paradigmatic cases
January 2012-January 2015
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Vigo University (Spain)
Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain)
Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)
CERI de Sciences-Po (France)
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
Funded by Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government, Fundamental Research Projects Program
Summary: The project seeks to investigate the processes of identity construction associated with the figure of the victim in contemporary Spain.
TOLERACE. The semantics of tolerance and (anti-)racism in Europe: public bodies and civil society on a comparative perspective
February 2010-March 2013
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (Portugal)
The Danish National Centre for Social Research (Denmark)
European University Viadrina (Germany)
University of Seville (Spain)
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds (UK)
Funded by European Commission, European Union, Seventh Framework Programme
Summary: The main objective of the project is to explore how the different meanings given to racism, anti-racism and tolerance are shaped through the mediation of public bodies and policies at the European, national, regional and local level, as well as civil society organisations.
Precarious life conditions. The processes of increasing precariousness in social life and identity in contemporary Spanish society
January 2009-December 2011
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
University of Valencia (Spain)
Funded by Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government, Fundamental Research Projects Program
Summary: The main aim of the project is to carry out a research on the processes involved in the increasing precariousness of social life and identity in contemporary Spanish society.
Experts in the construction of identities through the Basque and Catalan cultural heritage
July 2009-July 2010
Basque Studies Society and Catalan Studies Institute
Funded by Basque Studies Society and Catalan Studies Institute
Summary: A comparative analysis on the role of experts in relation to the processes involved in the construction of identities within the Basque and Catalan societies.
The cultural politics system in Spain
January 2009-December 2011
University of Barcelona (Spain)
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Funded by Ministry of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government, Fundamental Research Projects Program
Summary: This project carries out a global analysis of the cultural politics system in Spain.
Evaluation of the third Plan of Portugalete’s City Council on Drug Dependency
June 2009-January 2010
City Council of Portugalete (Spain), 2009
Summary: Professional research work carried out to design a tool in order to evaluate the master plan of the City Council focused on handling drug dependency.
Assessment of the knowledge, use and evaluation as regards Vitoria’s Plan on Youth (2006-2008) and Panoramic view and future perspectives on the situation of young people in Vitoria
September 2008-March 2009
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Fundend by the City Council of Vitoria, Álava (Spain)
Summary: The work consists in the assessment of Vitoria’s Plan on Youth and the analysis of the future perspectives for young people in the city.
The Expert Construction of Heritage. A Sociology of Mediations on the Role Played by the Fabric of Expertise in the Production of Cultural Heritage in the Basque Country
September 2004-September 2008
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Funded by the Basque Government, Doctoral Programme
Summary: Fellowship funding a PhD thesis on the expert construction of identities through the production of cultural heritage.
Free Software at university. Study on the conditions to implement Free Software within the scholar community that belongs to the public system of universities in the Basque Country
January 2006-December 2006
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Funded by EJIE, Basque Government
Summary: The research focuses on how to implement Free Software within the universities of the Basque Country in relation to its social dimension.
Ways of learning at university
April 2006-December 2006
University of Valencia (Spain)
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
University of Murcia (Spain)
University of Oviedo (Spain)
Funded by Ministry of Education and Science, Government of Spain
Summary: It is an exploratory study on the different ways of learning carried out by students at four Spanish universities (Valencia, Basque Country, Oviedo, Murcia).
The production of Identity in the Knowledge Society
June 2004-June 2005
University of the Basque Country (Spain)
Funded by Basque Studies Society
Summary: The project explores the role of the expert culture in the production of collective identity in the Basque Country.
Daniel Muriel 